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| President Barack Obama listens as Vice President Joe Biden (left) presents the report on the Roadmap to Recovery as he meets with his Cabinet in the State Dining Room of the White House, Monday, June 8, 2009. Looking on at right are Attorney General Eric Holder and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
The GOP and conservative commentators have tried to position themselves as the great defenders of the constitution. However, Attorney General Eric Holder's admission that banks are just too big to prosecute threatens the constitution and America's rule of law more than anything since the Civil War. Yet nothing is being said. No Senate filibusters from the right, no indignant muckraking from the great windbag Limbaugh, nothing.
The reason is obvious. The right is in the pocket of the criminals who destroyed the world economy. The crooks pad the campaign chests of Republicans. The crooks, pay the advertising budgets that keep Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck and Roger Ailes in fine cigars and eating at expensive restaurants.
Pay attention America. Almost half of you pretend that the right is on the side of America. But the last week's events have proven one thing and one thing only. Socialism is not the greatest fear of Americans. The greatest fear is slavery, bondage, feudalism. When one segment of a society is above the law, then the rest of us have no chance of justice.
Boycott anyone who doesn't demand equality for all citizens. Demand your government hold the banks criminally liable for their theft. The financial crisis of 2008 did not occur in a vacuum. The causes of our financial depression are not mysterious. We know what happened. We know who is responsible. Demand they be held accountable.
In most states in the country, if you get pulled over with weed in your car, you will go to jail for no other reason than rich, white Christian Republicans have decided Jesus doesn't like marijuana. So how in God's name can the biggest criminals in world history be left to commit more crimes against America. That is the real tragedy. The banks literally got away with murder and they are still committing crimes. Why wouldn't they? If I had a free pass to steal trillions of dollars, I'd do likewise.
Actually, I wouldn't as a poor person, I still labor under a yoke of morality and responsibility to my fellow man that just doesn't apply to the rich.
Demand justice for all or law for none. How can our democracy stand if law doesn't apply to all?
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